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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-691/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-691/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2020/691",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/691 of 30 January 2020 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of Council as regards rules for aquaculture establishments and transporters of aquatic animals (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-691",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Requirement for approved aquaculture establishments and groups thereof to have a biosecurity plan",
  "text": "The competent authority shall only approve aquaculture establishments referred to in Article 7 and Articles 9 to 19, or groups of aquaculture establishments referred to in Article 8, if their operators have developed and documented a biosecurity plan, which complies with the following requirements:\n(a) it identifies the routes whereby a disease agent can enter the aquaculture establishment or group of aquaculture establishments, spread within it and transfer from it to the environment or to other aquaculture establishments;\n(b) it takes account of the specificities of the individual aquaculture establishment or group of aquaculture establishments and identifies risk-mitigation measures for each biosecurity risk which has been identified;\n(c) it considers or takes into account, where appropriate, the elements set out in point 1(a) of Parts 1 to 7 and Parts 9 to 12, and in point 1(b) of Part 8 of Annex I, when this plan for the aquaculture establishment or group of aquaculture establishments is being developed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/691/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:37.230185+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}